Reviews
October 8, 2009
The More They Stay the Same: William Manchester’s The Death of a President 1
by Lydia Kiesling
The Death of a President, unsurprisingly, is pure hagiography, but that’s actually the large part of its charm.
September 30, 2009
Top 20 Alternative: Manjushree Thapa’s The Tutor of History 5
by Sonya Chung
There is certainly something to be said for heady novels written by women, when so much of “women’s fiction” is about inner emotional lives and domestic relationships. But it does make me ask the question of why we write and why we read.
September 28, 2009
The Impish Delight of Edward Gorey 2
by Bezalel Stern
Two assumptions are often made about the magnificent writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. First, that he is British. Second, that he is long dead.
September 15, 2009
Forgotten Visionary: The Art of Charles Burchfield 0
by Buzz Poole
Burchfield died in 1967, just as the word “psychedelic” was entering the cultural lexicon, but his paintings quake with hallucinatory glory that has nothing to do with politics or culture.
September 3, 2009
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Thoughts on Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs 24
by Edan Lepucki
We all came out of Lorrie Moore’s overcoat–or her frog hospital, her bonehead Halloween costume.
September 2, 2009
The Lion, The Witch and Ishiguro 3
by Lydia Kiesling
The surprise in a large part of Kazuo Ishiguro’s work is that he changes the very quality of the world in some subtle but deeply alarming way.
